Kringla
Whether they are shaped like hearts, knots, or figure-eights, these simple Kringla Cookies will taste as good as they look!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup lard, shortening or butter softened to room temperature
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg or cardamom
- 4 cups flour
Instructions
- Using a mixer, cream sugar and lard together until well incorporated.
- Add salt, sour cream and buttermilk mixing until fully incorporated.
- Add baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg and one cup of flour. Mix gently. Continue adding flour, one cup at a time, until fully incorporated.
- Wrap dough in a piece of plastic wrap and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400°. Lightly grease cookie sheets.
- Remove about 1/4 of the dough from refrigerator and divide into golf-ball-sized portions. Sprinkle countertop lightly with flour (just enough to keep dough from sticking). Roll each portion into a skinny log (see image for reference), 6-8 inches long.
- Form each log into desired shape (e.g. figure-eights, hearts, "S", knots) and place on cookie sheet. Leave about 2 inches between cookies.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes, just until bottom of cookies is lightly browned. If the tops brown, they have baked too long. Unless you like them that way ... then they were baked perfectly!
- Continue with remaining dough, working in batches. Keeping the dough cold will help with shaping the cookies.